Gabriel Garcia Marquez Died

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Passed Away Today

Literary icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away at his home in Mexico City on Thursday, April 17th, following reports last week that the 87-year-old author was in poor health and was hospitalized due to infections in his lungs and urinary tract infection.

A prolific author and critic, Marquez is perhaps best known for pioneering the magic realism literary style, which integrates fantastical or dream-like motifs into an otherwise realistic environment. He was the author of numerous novels, including Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, as well as novellas, short stories, screenplays and non-fiction. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature for his body of work in 1982.

The beloved Colombian-born writer was considered a pioneer of the Latin American literary movement and the greatest Spanish-language author since Cervantes. Dubbed “Gabo,” by his South American fans, Marquez is survived by his wife, Mercedes Barcha, and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.